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Use of generalised additive models to categorise continuous variables in clinical prediction

✍ Scribed by Irantzu Barrio, Inmaculada Arostegui, José M Quintana

Book ID
120678478
Publisher
BioMed Central
Year
2013
Tongue
English
Weight
277 KB
Volume
13
Category
Article
ISSN
1471-2288

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